Quotes About Resilience

Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

You see a boxer with a beautiful nose and you got a fighter without heart.

Self-survival is the cause of all suffering.

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained something, too, though. They had at least escaped the concentration camps, been taken in by good, caring families, and had grown up to live their lives in relative freedom.

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

He was at an age when every odd ache or pain brought a little more fear than it had before, when colds lingered and settled on the chest.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.

It's hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you.

One Sometimes you're walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

Q: What did the tree say to the Pilgrim's ax? A: You got me stumped. Q: How many days would it take two Pilgrims to dig half a hole? A: None. No one can dig half a hole! Q: When things went wrong, what could the Pilgrims always count on? A: Their fingers!

The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think of the phoenix. He lives alone for more than a thousand years acquiring great wisdom and when it's his time to go, he gathers leaves around himself, spreads his wings, and starts a fire - a new phoenix is born from his ashes. We're going forward, bird!

El amor ama las cosas difíciles.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Mature spiritual leadership is forged in the crucible of difficult conversations, the pressure of conflicted relationships, the pain of setbacks, and dark nights of the soul.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

parece que hace falta una crisis de extremo quebranto para hacer que cambien otros de nosotros que hemos estado en la iglesia durante mucho tiempo.

El sufrimiento tiene la asombrosa capacidad de abrirnos a nuevas verdades y de ponernos en movimiento.

What are the hurricane winds, internal and external, that prevent us from becoming all God intends?

In retrospect, I can see in my own life what I could not see at the time — how the job I lost helped me find work I needed to do, how the "road closed" sign turned me toward terrain I needed to travel, how losses that felt irredeemable forced me to discern meanings I needed to know. On the surface it seemed that life was lessening, but silently and lavishly the seeds of new life were always being sown. — Parker Palmer50